Update on QGIS Meeting Chattanooga October 25th 2019

Update on QGIS Meeting Chattanooga October 25th 2019

So Abstracts are starting to
roll in

Big news: Social at the Tap House in Historic St Elmo the Night
before the meeting (October 24th). Sponsors have stepped and
it's happening. For those who are coming in the night before
it's going to be a fun event.

Abstracts of Note:

Randal Hale - QGIS: It's all about Form(s) - QGIS comes with
the abilility to create forms to help you input data or
capture data. You can build simple forms to help users avoid
misspellings and help speed up data capture. You can also
build forms where data entry is dependent on previous data
entered as well as forms where data entry depends on other GIS
data. Building Forms in QGIS is easy, powerful, and easily
done if you have no programming experience. I'm going to
attempt to talk you through the easiest to make forms plus one
difficult form to show you how easy this can be (or hard
depending on how the demos work).

Erich Purpur - EcoValuator: QGIS plugin development. Working
in collaboration with Key-Log Economics (An environmental
economics consulting firm) in a project funded by the National
Fish & Wildlife Foundation, I (Erich Purpur) worked with a
group of other developers and contributors to build
EcoValuator, a plugin built for QGIS 3. EcoValuator is built
on python and provides a simple means of estimating the dollar
value of a study area, based on the land cover types in that
study area, and on your ecosystem service of choice. This
presentation will cover background information about the
project, what are ecosystem services, how the EcoValuator
works, challenges of using the QGIS python API, and
demonstration of the plugin in action.

Bernie Drahola - Building a cloud-based mapping and analysis
solution based on Openlayers and CesiumJS. 18 month ago our
team felt the need for having a next Gen cloud mapping
solution. We did not want to leave it all to ArcGIS Online, so
we decided to build our own. It is designed to make maps,
analyze data, add custom database solutions, and to share maps
and data with fellow users.Take a look behind the scene of the
journey of putting it all together and learn how far we have
come and what are our ideas in terms of connecting Open Source
solutions like QGIS and GeoServer.

More are coming in! Please Submit if you wish to talk about
QGIS or any of the software QGIS touches. We're over the halfway
mark for Talks.